hi!
On Friday 07 February 2003 03:59, Eric Miller wrote:
> I have SMP enabled in my kernel config, but how can I
> tell if the system is taking advantage of SMP? is
> there a cat /proc/tellmeifmyshitsworking or soemthing
> like that?
1. top
.........
CPU0 states: 6.2% user, 3.4% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% iowait, 89.2% idle
CPU1 states: 0.5% user, 0.3% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% iowait, 98.2% idle
.........
2. dmesg | less
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor #1 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
Processors: 2
3. less /proc/cpuinfo
> Are there any SMP tools (packages with SMP commands)
I don't know any SMP Tools. What do you want?
Bind a task onto a single CPU like under WindowsNT ?
I used to do this under NT, but never had to do this
under Linux, I think the scheduling (round robin?) is
better and renice works also better.
Perhaps you find something interesting in the smp-howto.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMP-HOWTO.html
hope this helped
Joe
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